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.Letters Patent No. 69,152, dated ,Sr'ptcmlici' 24, 1867.

IMPROVED CARPET-CLEANER.

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'lO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it known that I, Gizonuia W. YoL'xu, of the city and county ot' Sau Francisco, State of California, have made and invented a new and useful iml'n'ovcnient in machinery for renovating and cleaningv carpets, which I designate the Combined Whip-lleater and Cleaner, which, taken together with the accompanying drawings, isa full and clear description.

Figure l represents one of the whip-beaters A, which is formed of wood and raw hide, leather, or other ticxiblc material. The end lashes or whips are'ffastened to the roller and beater by screws or their equivalents. The other lashes or whips ma)r bc fastened securely to the beaters, or may pass to the rollers and fasten as the end whips are secured.

The purposesI of this beater are to produce a concussion upon the carpet by the blow of the Wood portion of the beater, as well as to disengage the dirt or loose fibres by the action of the lashes or whips; the action of the one being` repeated almost sii'nultaneously with ,the other, causing thereby a better consecutive action upon the material to be operated upon than any other form of beater.

Figure 2 shows the brushes l) l) and their position so as to operate on both sides ofthe fabric to be cleaned.

On the bcater-shaft is a pulley over which a belt works, and over the pulley which drives the cranks by which the brushes are worked, giving the brushesl the diagonal motion across the fabric to be cleaned.

Figure 3 is an upright position ofthe machine, showing the whip-beaters A A upon the shaft C that operates the beaters, the position of the brushes D l), together with the frame E E and the driving-wheel F F, thus presenting a full description of the machine and its combinations, together with the fabric G to be acted upon by the whip-beaters and brushes, thus producinroi amachine of a practical and valuable kind for the uses and purposes for which it is designed. lt brings every part of the carpet completely under the Operation of the whips, beaters, and brushes, whose peculiar motion effects thc results sought., without injury to the materials 0pcratednpon.

What I claim,l and wish to secure by Letters latcnt, is*

rflic whips, in combination with the beaters', as shown and set forth.

l also claim the combination of the combined whip-beaters with the brushes D D, accordinzfjr to arrangeinents above described, and for the purposes above specified.

G. W. YOUNG.

Witnesses:

J. 1I. MeIx'rini-z, H. Winnaar). 

